British summer weather really can be most contrary 😂

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 3d ago

The UK’s warmest August night was in 1990, when a temperature of 23.9°C was recorded in Brighton 🥵🌃 Scroll through the images for more August climate stats 👇 Find out more about our weather and climate records: bit.ly/4q8gTHJ

After weeks and weeks of warm temperatures, it would be lovely to have overnight temps around 3°C. However as our indoor temperates are still currently around 28°C, I don’t think we’ll notice the cold overnight!

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 4d ago

It's set to be quite a chilly night for August, away from East Anglia and southeast England📉 Prone rural spots may even see grass temperatures falling close to freezing! Much warmer conditions return for most by tomorrow night🌡️

New toy day…gps time server from RevK has arrived revk.uk/2026/07/time-for-somet…

Zippy's gone! Ronnie Le Drew R.I.P. 😪

Treated myself to a nice GPS NTP server from the nice RevK. You can never have too many clocks and reference time sources lectronz.com/products/gps...

GPS PoE NTP Stratum 1 server

An ESP32-S3 module with Ethernet and PoE, and GPS module designed to provide stratum 1 NTP server for office/business use.

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Blimey! Didn’t feel autumnal in London at all this morning🥵…kinda jealous we didn’t have some of those 1.2°C temperatures today!

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · last wk.

There was an autumnal chill in the air for some this morning with a grass frost in some Scottish glens🥶 Meanwhile, many southern parts of Britain remained in the teens Celsius. The north-south split in temperatures will continue this week 🌡️

My favourite ever video/music pairing from YouTube. Mesmerising. ❤️

Air - La Femme D'Argent (Music Video) [A Trip Down Market Street - Restored]

YouTube video by maxerd

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Rioja, cheese,meat…three of the major food groups…what’s not to like🙌

Mark@rfcider.eurosky.social · 2w ago

At the risk of starting a wordy trend, Picky Tea with a generous schooner of Rioja tonight.

Viking Mira moored up in Greenwich for a few days. I love seeing the influx of extra visitors on days like today

This evenings taste test…

Wife’s cooking a chilli for later…her measurement approach normal consists of ‘one pot or two’…but she’s at least made one of the pots a hot paprika instead of two pots of hot chilli powder today🥵😁

This week’s Veritasium covers the mysteries of Smith charts and impedance…a good episode for radio amateurs youtu.be/GK2pZ_oVU1o?...

The Scariest Chart in Electrical Engineering

YouTube video by Veritasium

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If you like comedy action series, I can thoroughly recommend Agent Kim Reactivated on Netflix. We just started watching and have been giggling and smiling our way through the first 4 episodes. Brilliant escapism and fun👍 www.netflix.com/gb/title/826...

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When an unassuming dad's daughter goes missing, he dusts off his old black-ops skills to track her down — only to attract the wrong kind of attention.

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This looks like it might be a great book to get hold of when it’s finally published in September lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-secret...

The Secret Life of Circuits

Many of you follow this blog because of the regular features about electronic circuit design.

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This looks an interesting tool to have a play with… aresvalley.com

Another Viking cruise ship visiting Greenwich this week. It’s a joy to see the tourists in town

It was quite normal to take spare fountain pen ink cartridges into exams🤣😳 I distinctly remember the handache at the end of exams, writing tens of pages for each 3 hour exam over many days of exams. I don’t miss those days…

Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ.@activateamymode.bsky.social · 4w ago

Kids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣

Interesting to see just how small the QMX really is!

Temperatures have exceeded 34°C today for the 8th day this year 🌡️ That makes it a record for the most number of 34°C or higher in a calendar year 👇 The record was previously set in 1976 and 2020 for 7 days

The Goodyear blimp has been hanging around our area for the last few days. Something quite magical about this form of transport…and I’d love to try a Zepp antenna from one 👍

Siccar Point: A POTA Activation at the Birthplace of Deep Time by Thomas (K4SWL) On Saturday, June 20, 2026, my wife and I decided to spend the day exploring one of the most remarkable places along Scotland's southeastern coastline: Siccar Point. The Siccar Point Site of Significant Scientific…

Siccar Point: A POTA Activation at the Birthplace of Deep Time

by Thomas (K4SWL) On Saturday, June 20, 2026, my wife and I decided to spend the day exploring one of the most remarkable places along Scotland's southeastern coastline: Siccar Point. The Siccar Point Site of Significant Scientific Interest (GB-1358) is tucked away in the Scottish Borders overlooking the North Sea. I'd been eyeing this park for a couple of days. Looking at satellite imagery on Google Maps, I had a feeling it would make for a spectacular activation.

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We play a selection of daily puzzles on the NYT website www.nytco.com/games/ However it absolutely infuriates me when they include clues/answers that only one country in the world (USA) recognise🤬

Today’s drinking selection…a cooling beer (or two) on a hot summer’s evening

Dang! This looks a damn tasty number…but on a day when the UK June temperature record was broken again at 37.4°C, I’m not sure 9.5% abv would be a wise idea…

Jasper Vathorst@jrsikken.bsky.social · last mo.

Poah die kicked wel in. 9.5%

I’ve succumbed to a new travel backpack…I blame that smooth talking Thomas K4SWL qrper.com/2026/06/a-to...

A Tour and Review of my Savotta Niukka 20L Radio Backpack

This summer, my family and I are spending several weeks in the United Kingdom, and naturally, I’m fitting in as much portable radio as humanly possible as MM5SWL, M5SWL, and hopefully, MW5SWL…

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Sainsbury’s have some excellent 3 for 4 deals on international beers at the moment, and in particular on two of the best German beers going…Fruh Kolsch & Augustiner Helles. Both are dangerously quaffable!

Belated RadCom has now arrived 🎉

Ice lollies hit the spot as our temperatures hit a balmy 31°C

Already a warm start to the day at 28°C🥵

That will be the deluge and thunderstorms that hit London at 4am this morning. It was ‘intense’😳

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · last mo.

Did you hear any thunder last night? Somerset alone had around 18,540 strikes in the past 24 hours⚡ Take a look at the intense rain that stormed eastwards from yesterday afternoon and into this morning ⛈️